On Jan 5, 2005, at 8:37 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
on 05/01/05 20:20, Clark Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 2:40 PM -0800 1/5/05, David Bjur wrote:Unfortunately that option was not available in my instance. Perhaps because I was using a DVD OS X install disk?
On Jan 5, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
That's probably because when you formatted the drive with Disk Utility from
10.3, you didn't check the option to have the OS 9 driver installed...
A DVD install disk by itself wouldn't preclude install OS 9 drivers but if the installer disk is for a recent model of Mac that doesn't support booting into 9 it probably wouldn't have the feature.
Good catch, Clark! I bet that David was using an OS X installation DVD that
was specific for a recent Mac, not the retail CD. That would explain why the
option wouldn't be there, although if you think about it, I don't see why
they would remove the option from Disk Utility. Even though a given disk
you're formatting with Disk Utility might be connected or used in a
Macintosh that cannot boot in OS 9, you might want later to use that disk
with an older Macintosh...
-Laurent.
Indeed, the DVD I purchased was evidently intended for a 15" PowerBook; the sticker on the envelope reads: "603-4791-A PowerBook 15" Print."
Thanks for the detective work!
Dave
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